The 2017 International Conference on Applications and Technologies in Information Security (ATIS), will be the eighth (8th) event in the ATIS series, which started in 2010. The purpose of ATIS is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative ideas, research results, applications and experience from around the world. The annual ATIS conference highlights new results in the design and analysis of digital security hardware and software implementations. ATIS provides a valuable connection between the theoretical and implementation communities and attracts participants from industry, academia, and government organisations.

As academic research in information security has developed over the last twenty or so years, applications and techniques are being developed to be of specific use in this area. These include wavelets and their applications in digital forensics, classification algorithms for use in malicious software detection, and genetic algorithms custom-made for the cryptographic community, etc. ATIS 2017 focuses on all aspects on techniques and applications in information security. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings to be published as Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science Series (EI-indexed). ATIS 2017 CCIS Volume will be systematically submitted by Springer to various indexing services, including EI-Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, etc. Selected top quality papers accepted and presented in the ATIS2017 will be invited for extension for the special issues of some international journals, including Journal of Industrial Integration and Management http://www.worldscientific.com/page/jiim/callforpapers02